A/UX Binary Archive

Welcome to my mini archive ("nicsbox") which includes some
precompiled binaries for the ancient Apple A/UX. All binaries are compiled on a
Mac IIfx running Apple UX 3.0.1 with 32MB RAM and a one gig hard drive. To install the binaries you have to create a
directory under /usr/local/gnu. After you have downloaded an archive move it to
/usr/local/gnu and uncompress it using the following command:

gzip -dc <filename.tar.gz> | tar xvfmo -

In some cases the command above creates an single directory which includes
the bin, etc, man, lib directories. In this case move the content of the newly
created directory to /usr/local/gnu. Also check always the "documentation"
because some rather large distributions require an extra directory to work (eg.
gcc281 has to be installed under /usr/local/gnu/gcc281).

If you do not have gzip you can download a precompiled and
non-compressed version using this link. Currently I do not provide any sources
due to limited disk space and the fact that most of the problems where fixed in
the "quick & dirty" way without using any #ifdefs in the sources.
But if you are really desperate drop me a note and I will send you the modified
source trees. I haven't had the time to run excessive tests using the software
provided below. Please let me know if you encounter any problems (including a
detailed description).

Purpose of the following binaries is not to replace jagubox
instead the binaries listed here are more recent versions compared to the stuff
which can be found in the jagubox-archives. Several packets have
dependencies on other precompiled software (eg. ImageMagic needs gs for reading
and writing ps files).

I'm also binary maintainer of the A/UX version of the vim
editor. For more information on the A/UX precompiled packages check my vim
page. For more information on vim in general, check http://www.vim.org

I got reports from some users that
some of the packages are not working under A/UX 3.1. If you encounter any
problems please let me know, this helps me to keep the page up to date! Also let
me know if a binary is running on your system and send me the configuration you
are using.

Update 26/10/02: I got some
information regarding the stability of various tools under A/UX3.1 (thanks
Georges).

Make sure that hostname and
domainname are set (check /etc/HOSTNAME) otherwise httpd will core dump in
gethostbyname/qsort. Took me half a day to find out. Standard installation
path is /usr/local/apache.

Replacement for Motif2.0
including libraries and header files, compiled for /usr/X11R6. Please note
that I'm using my own compiled static X11R6 libraries. If you have
problems while using this lesstif-distribution please let me know and I
will make my R6 stuff available.

Please note that installation
is different from the other packages on this page. You need gnu install
and gnu make. Unpack the distribution and run (as root) make install from
the newly created directory.

Precompiled version of teTeX-1.0.7. This version does not
include the pdftex (an related stuff) because I do not have a working c++
compiler. It seems to be that there is a problem with "strip"
and some binaries (floating point exception). Because of that fact not all
binaries are stripped (namely xdvi.bin and the mktexpk command). Please
let me know if you encounter any problems. It is also recommended that you
download the precompiled version of ghostscript (see above).